But he said he was disturbed by undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing fetal body parts as “parts of a machine or something”.
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Patients of Planned Parenthood will see added security this morning as police up patrols at locations across NY in wake of a deadly shooting in Colorado.
The bearded drifter accused of being America’s latest random killer apparently made a family planning clinic that does abortions his specific target, the mayor of the town rocked by the shooting said today.
Planned Parenthood gets about one-third of its annual $1.3 billion budget from Washington.
For a long time, to opponents of the organization, its name has been synonymous with abortion – though the group says abortion services only constitute 3 percent of the services it provides.
A police auto blocks the entrance outside the Planned Parenthood clinic a day after a gunman opened fire in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Nov. 28, 2015.
Once again, the killer was a white male, with a track record of abusing his wife, but somehow he saw himself as a standard-bearer for the Pro-Life movement, which never flinches at murdering adults at Planned Parenthood centers.
Though Trump, who has in the past referred to Planned Parenthood as “an abortion factory”, said he did not understand the killer’s motives, he said he understands that many people have strong feelings of dislike for the women’s health organization. “We’ll see how that plays out”. “And this person, apparently, from everything we know, very unstable person, and just a bad tragedy…”
Richards also addressed Congressional defunding of Planned Parenthood in the interview, “Planned Parenthood is fully cooperating with Congress. We have provided tens of thousands of pages of documents”.
McCarthy didn’t rule out that Planned Parenthood language could be added in some fashion to the government funding bill saying, “I expect there to be a healthy debate on every place the government spends money and that’s the way democracy works”.
“I know when I talk like this, some people, especially of the Republican persuasion, say I’m playing the gender card”.
Rubio called it “horrifying” and focused on mental health. Garrett Swasey, 44, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs police officer who was shot and killed while responding to the shooting and was described by his fellow church members and friends as a courageous man and loving father who drew strength and inspiration from his Christian faith.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy insists there won’t be any government shutdown over taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.
